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Ella Baker, former executive director of SCLC and a key figure in the founding of SNCC, will speak on "The Student and the South: New Coalition in the Old Confederacy," at 4 p.m. today in Emerson...
...further information, contact: SCOPE Project, SCLC, 334 Ave, NE, Atlanta, Georgia
...only organization actively seeking Northern volunteers is Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Selma incident diverted SCLC's attention at a key point in the recruitment drive, but the SCOPE project has inspired the formation of chapters at several key universities. At both the University of Minnesota and Brandeis, SCOPE groups are training for a summer of voter registration work. As explained in today's insert, each chapter will work under the supervision of Negro leaders in preselected Southern communities...
...chapter? The story is rather involved. Originally the Young Democrats agreed to form one but, after several weeks of deliberation and contemplation, decided not to. Peter Weiner, president of the YD's, explained that he had doubts about the project. Had the preselected communities been adequately researched by the SCLC staff? Was there a danger that massive Northern participation would smother or inhibit local initiative? And, undoubtedly, Weiner was reluctant to throw his organization into the factional strief of the civil rights movement: many YD's belong to SNCC, and SNCC takes a dim, or at least cautious view...
Last Saturday Hosea Williams of SCLC came to Harvard and explained the plans of the SCOPE project. He convinced Weiner, but most of the CRCC people remained skeptical if not about the project certainly about Harvard's participation...